CSGO: The Winter Update is here!

Valve has pushed the latest update to CS:GO that introduces a brand new gun to the game alongside minor tweaks.

For the first time since 2014, CS:GO has had a brand-new weapon added to the game: the R8 revolver. The gun features two fire modes, a right click and left click. Right clicking allows the gun to be shot instantly, but at the cost of accuracy, while the left click gives perfect accuracy but must be held down for a small period of time before the revolver actually fires.

Alongside the new revolver, the Winter Update is now in full effect, with the traditional season’s greetings killcam overlay and holiday sweaters for the chickens. Check out a full list of changes below:

WINTER UPDATE

Slight adjustments to Holiday Cheer.

Gifts are now available for purchase. Gift leaderboards will be displayed until January 15th.

Added the Revolver Case.

Added several new community sticker capsules, currently available as offers.

Added Service Medals for 2016. Players achieving Global General rank after December 31st will receive the new year’s medal.

R8 REVOLVER

Added a new secondary weapon, the R8 Revolver, which occupies the Desert Eagle loadout slot.

Note: The R8 Revolver will become usable in-game when the back-end servers restart.

GAMEPLAY

In Competitive Matchmaking times are now 1:55 and 0:40 for round and C4, respectively. These are also the new times for CSGO Major Championships.

Adjusted recovery time on the AK47, M4A4, and M4A1-S assault rifles to reduce the range at which spraying is preferable to tapping/bursting.

Game servers will now display their SteamID to an operator’s status request in the server console.

Game servers with GOTV enabled and GOTV relays that need to support external clients connecting on GOTV port must set tv_advertise_watchable 1

MISC

Users’ options are now stored independently in a Steam account-local data folder and can be different across Steam accounts on the same machine.

Administrators setting up tournament Active Directory logons with Roaming Profiles can create a directory inside the user’s roaming profile storage and expose that location to the game by setting an environment variable USRLOCALCSGO=%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\csgo

Video options for shadow quality, model/texture detail, effect detail, shader detail, and texture filtering mode can now be autodetected at startup to adjust for multitasking with other background applications. These video options can also be permanently set by the user to remain the same regardless of other background applications detected during game launch.

Lowlights will now identify the target using the same visual indicator as the Killer Replay.

MAPS

Fixed some surfaces playing the wrong footstep sounds in Mirage, Overpass and Train.

Fixed a DM spawnpoint in de_dust where the player would get stuck.

STEAM CONTROLLER

Made toggle crouch work

Fixed several bugs

GAME STATE INTEGRATION

CS:GO’s game state can be relayed remotely, allowing third parties to integrate their services with the game. For example, game state integration was used at the CS:GO Major Championship at DreamHack Cluj-Napoca to present special stage effects (e.g., lighting and pyrotechnics) during a match.